Happy December to everyone! Good luck to those in the Seattle area this weekend, hope you can all dig yourselves out of the heaping snow! (we're jealous!) Catching you all up on events on our end, we entertained our first visitor from the States on the weekend of December 5-7. Brent, a friend and co-worker from Seattle was our inaugural flat-guest, and we all had a great weekend.
The weather was completely cooperative, with brilliant sunny skies and reasonable temperatures. We kept pretty busy the whole weekend, with a stop to our favorite local pub, the Prince Edward, right off the bat on Friday night, followed by home-made porridge in the morning. Saturday was filled with plenty of sight-seeing, including the fascinatingly busy Borough Market, walks through Hyde Park, and along the Thames, seeing Parliament, Big-Ben and Buckingham palace. Of course stopping at many a pub along the way... London was an absolute shoppers' paradise that weekend, as main streets were shut down to car traffic, and completely filled with bundled-up pedestrians.
We dined in Soho on Saturday night at a brand-new Italian restaurant receiving rave reviews (despite only being open for 3 weeks!), and met up with London EY-ers for a traditional Finnish Christmas party in the Angel area of London. Complete with mulled wine, traditional Finnish food, and a visit from St. Nick himself, it was eye-opening and a great time. Plus, we'd never been to Angel, and it is a really cool, eclectic, young part of town. We'll definitely be going back.
Hope all is well with everyone, we're looking forward to entertaining our second visitor, a good friend of ours from Seattle affectionately known as "KVR," from December 27 through Jan 5. We'll be sure to post further adventures from the Holidays, as well as our recent trip to Rome and New Years! Happy Holidays everybody! Cheers!
